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fireproofing a cardboard case?

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dr.kevin

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I move a lot, and it costs nearly $30 to ship my steel case every time.
that money adds up. So i need something light weight. like cardboard.

if i lay the mobo flat on the cardboard, what cheap fireproof material will prevent the cardboard from catching on fire?
 
My thoughts with using carboard:

1) Would be be strong enough to survive moving around a lot? If not, then you might as well box up all the PC parts, ship that and then build a new "case" out of cardboard each time.

2) A PC case is heavy, true. But all the components do add a lot of weight also. Would the cost of shipping be that much less for just the parts of your PC? I just did a build with a steel case that weighs about 25 pounds, give or take. I'd guess it weighs 40 or 50 with all the parts in. I have no idea, I'm just going by how it felt lifting it, it could only be 10 pounds heavier. But that's something to consider.

3) I've seen fairly lightweight cases made from aluminum that were sturdy enough to be shipped full of PC parts. I used to build PC's to sell on ebay as a hobby. It's been 3 years so a lot of the cases we were using might be discontinued so I'm a bit hesistant to make a recommendation, but that is a thought there.

4) There's the "LANBOX" sized cases also, if you don't mind building a small PC. Does limit the choices of what you can use for parts, and does mean you have to do a new build but it would make a lot smaller PC for shipping.

Anyway, I know this doesn't directly answer your fireproofing cardboard question at all, but I did want to make some comments that hopefully are helpful somehow.
 
Cardboard provides no grounding, no shielding. I wouldn't.

Fire? There's nothing about the PC necessarily that will cause the cardboard to catch fire unless some weird component failure or short, but you'll have the motherboard and stuff up on stand-offs anyway...

Cardboard is flimsy... bad choice, especially for moving it around. Maybe aluminum? polycarbonate?

Why do you pay to shpi it when you move? Why not just throw it in the back of your car/truck?
 
agreed that cardboard is a bad choice. You can get aluminum/lexan cases that are pretty light weight (without components) that will hold up a lot better than cardboard will. Not only is cardboard very flimsy, but it can be dangerous (in that situation) as well.
 
My i7 rig was in my newegg cardboard box for about a week. My case had a shipping error (not mountain mods fault, crummy FedEx) and didn't arive with my parts as planned. I sat there for an hour eyeballing my parts and they wouldn't stop screaming.. "play with me!!!".

I couldn't resist the voices in my head.
 
I used a cardboard case, way back in the day when I got one of the brank-new P4 1.6ghz chips. My case was a mispick, and I had a lan to be at so I just put it together in a box. I dismantled it right away, though.

I'd never, ever trust a bardboard case to being shipped. If it's sitting still it's one thing, but every little bump is going to damage the cardboard and that's not a sane risk to take to save a few bucks.
 
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